Project Manager
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit 2 x Project Managers for initial 6 month contracts with potential to extend on a rate of £450-£500/day (Inside of IR35). These roles will be hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.
Responsibilities:
– Manage the project plan, risks and multidisciplinary project teams for multiple projects.
– Understand and manage interdependencies with other projects in the programme of change ensuring the impact of issues or changes are appropriately managed.
– Work closely with programme managers to effectively deliver project objectives and deliverables whilst mitigating against risks or escalating issues in a timely manner, where appropriate.
– Motivate and coordinate project teams and stakeholders to deliver to project plans.
– Work with project teams and stakeholders to gather and document requirements to feed into procurement or implementation projects, this may involve facilitating workshops.
Essential Skills:
– Significant experience as a project manager, delivering successful solutions in challenging business environments.
– Developing and managing project plans, benefits, risks, decisions, issues, interdependencies and other related information including project paperwork (such as meeting notes and action tracking).
– Experience of engaging and obtaining results from matrix project teams, stakeholders and senior colleagues to ensure projects deliver to agreed scope/quality, budgets and timelines.
– Experience of leading digital transformation programmes and projects delivering both IT and business changes.
– Effective communication skills both oral and written, with the ability to collate and present information to others including monthly project reports to project sponsor and programme manager.
– Experience of standard business analysis tools and techniques to communicate with staff.
– Experience of using Project Management tools.
– Proactive and able to demonstrate initiative and sound judgement.
– Ability to balance diplomacy and tact with assertiveness.
– Being organised, with positive enthusiastic attitude.
– Good interpersonal skills and an ability to work with and influence a wide range of staff in a rapidly changing environment are essential.
– Good understanding of project and programme management principles, project delivery and project management tools.
– Strong stakeholder management skills.
– Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
Desirable Skills:
– Strong focus on Continuous Improvement.
– Awareness and understanding of current information and/or learning technology developments.
– Strong risk management knowledge and mind set. A track record demonstrating the consistent ability to focus on what can go wrong and taking appropriate and timely mitigating action.
If you would like to hear more about these opportunities please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Manage the project plan, risks and multidisciplinary project teams for multiple projects.
– Understand and manage interdependencies with other projects in the programme of change ensuring the impact of issues or changes are appropriately managed.
– Work closely with programme managers to effectively deliver project objectives and deliverables whilst mitigating against risks or escalating issues in a timely manner, where appropriate.
– Motivate and coordinate project teams and stakeholders to deliver to project plans.
– Work with project teams and stakeholders to gather and document requirements to feed into procurement or implementation projects, this may involve facilitating workshops.
Essential Skills:
– Significant experience as a project manager, delivering successful solutions in challenging business environments.
– Developing and managing project plans, benefits, risks, decisions, issues, interdependencies and other related information including project paperwork (such as meeting notes and action tracking).
– Experience of engaging and obtaining results from matrix project teams, stakeholders and senior colleagues to ensure projects deliver to agreed scope/quality, budgets and timelines.
– Experience of leading digital transformation programmes and projects delivering both IT and business changes.
– Effective communication skills both oral and written, with the ability to collate and present information to others including monthly project reports to project sponsor and programme manager.
– Experience of standard business analysis tools and techniques to communicate with staff.
– Experience of using Project Management tools.
– Proactive and able to demonstrate initiative and sound judgement.
– Ability to balance diplomacy and tact with assertiveness.
– Being organised, with positive enthusiastic attitude.
– Good interpersonal skills and an ability to work with and influence a wide range of staff in a rapidly changing environment are essential.
– Good understanding of project and programme management principles, project delivery and project management tools.
– Strong stakeholder management skills.
– Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
Desirable Skills:
– Strong focus on Continuous Improvement.
– Awareness and understanding of current information and/or learning technology developments.
– Strong risk management knowledge and mind set. A track record demonstrating the consistent ability to focus on what can go wrong and taking appropriate and timely mitigating action.
If you would like to hear more about these opportunities please get in touch.
